VP, Internal Audit

Role Overview

• Lead the Company’s IT Internal Audit program, including risk assessment, planning, execution, reporting, and follow-up.
• Oversee and enhance Sedgwick’s IT SOX program, including testing strategy and assurance over IT general controls, automated controls, interfaces, reports, and other key technology-dependent controls.
• Drive a risk-based IT audit plan focused on areas such as ERP systems, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud environments, third-party technology risk, and major system implementations.
• Provide direct leadership over IT audit testing strategy, including approach, methodology, evidence expectations, and quality of execution.
• Serve as a senior subject matter leader for SAP controls, including security, logical access, segregation of duties, privileged access, change management, configuration, interfaces, key reports, and automated controls.
• Partner closely with Internal Audit leadership to ensure technology and SAP risks are appropriately addressed in broader financial, operational, and compliance audits.
• Play an active role in Internal Audit’s involvement in Sedgwick’s global SAP S/4HANA transformation, helping assess: program governance, controls readiness, role design and access models, segregation of duties and mitigating controls, data migration and integration risks, testing and cutover readiness, post-implementation control sustainability.
• Lead and directly review remediation validation for IT and SAP-related findings to ensure corrective actions are practical, effective, and sustainable.
• Collaborate with management and external auditors on IT SOX and SAP controls, including testing coordination, issue resolution, and reliance discussions.
• Communicate technology and controls risks clearly and effectively to senior leadership, with a practical, business-oriented perspective.
• Help strengthen and modernize Internal Audit’s approach to auditing ERP transformation, digital risk, and enterprise technology change.
• Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing team and foster strong collaboration across Internal Audit, IT, Finance, and business leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, or a related field
• 12+ years of progressive experience in IT audit, IT risk, SOX, internal controls, or ERP controls, including senior leadership experience
• Strong background leading IT internal audit and IT SOX programs in a complex, large-scale organization
• Deep expertise in: IT general controls, IT SOX and technology-related financial controls, ERP and application controls, IT audit testing strategy and execution, issue tracking, follow-up, and remediation validation
• Significant experience with SAP environments, including controls related to access, security, segregation of duties, change management, configuration, interfaces, reports, and automated controls
• Experience supporting or auditing SAP implementations or major ERP transformation programs, ideally including SAP S/4HANA
• Strong understanding of implementation and transformation risk, including governance, testing, access design, data migration, and go-live readiness
• Ability to assess both design effectiveness and operating effectiveness of controls in a dynamic, global environment
• Executive presence and strong communication skills, with the ability to influence and partner effectively across senior business and technology stakeholders
• CISA preferred
• CIA, CPA, CISSP, or similar relevant certification a plus
• SAP or SAP controls-related certification preferred, or equivalent experience in SAP risk, controls, and GRC

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Cyber Security
• ERP

Benefits

• Work-life balance
• Professional development opportunities
• Meaningful oversight and assurance in technology